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1 Residents DT VOLUME 121, ISSUE 50 displaced TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 PAGE 6 Students say they had to leave their homes for renovations with little notice from The Quarters. CONNOR DOWNS / THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Starting at $677/month Managed By students, Find your New home (bills Included!) for Students Walk to UT Friendly community at a co-op! High-Speed Internet COVID-19 Precautions units open now & for summer and fall! apply at collegehouses.org Contents: CONTACT US MAIN TELEPHONE (512) 471-4591 Opinion News Life&Arts Sports EDITOR-IN-CHIEF When we look Candidates UT students Brock Emily Caldwell at diversity for 2021-22 navigate Cunningham (512) 232-2212 DT page page page page at UT, it’s student body unaccom- has become [email protected] 04 important to 05 president 07 madating 12 a fan favorite MANAGING EDITOR discuss disability rights debated policy positions professors following the despite not filling up the Trinady Joslin PERMANENT STAFF advocacy. Monday night. winter storm. stat sheet. (512) 232-2217 Editor-in-Chief Senior Sports Writers [email protected] Emily Caldwell Matthew Boncosky, Taylor Hawthorne Managing Editor CAMPUS NEWS OFFICE Trinady Joslin Newsletters Editor Assoc. Managing Editors Maia Borchardt (512) 232-2207 Emily Hernandez, Ariana Copy Desk Chiefs Arredondo Phoebe Hayes, Lawson [email protected] Director of Digital Strategy Freeman Hal Riley Assoc. Copy Desk Chiefs CMHC expands online scheduling opportunities The Texan strives to present all Director of Diversity & Irissa Omandam, Megan information fairly, accurately and Shankle, Chloe Roman Inclusion completely. If we have made an Areeba Amer Design Editor By Kiernan McCormick online scheduling makes error, let us know about it. E-mail Internal Relations Director Christina Peebles Sanika Nayak Assoc. Design Editor @KiernanMcCormi4 the brief assessment ap- [email protected]. External Relations Director Megan Fletcher Abhirupa Dasgupta Senior Designers pointment process easier Assoc. Opinion Editors Eunice Bao, Juleanna Culilap for students. Isabelle Costello, Hannah Video Editor The Counseling and Lopez, Julia Zaksek Brendan Long “Basically, (online sched- Forum Editors Mental Health Center be- Assoc. Video Editor uling) introduces another Daisy Kielty, Maria Sailale Jackson Barton gan offering online sched- Illustration Coordinator Sr. Videographers level of convenience and Abriella Corker Hannah Ortega, Matthew uling for brief assessment Editorial Illustrator Posey flexibility into our clinical Charlie Hyman appointments for the first Photo Editor system for students,” Redd News Editor Jack Myer time Feb. 10. Lauren Girgis Assoc. Photo Editors said. “We’re not taking any- Assoc. News Editors Kirsten Hahn, Jamie Hwang A brief assessment ap- Hannah Williford, Brooke Senior Photographer thing away. Students can Ontiveros pointment is a 15-20 min- Connor Downs still call, they can still — in News Desk Editors Comics Editors ute phone call where stu- Anna Canizales, Amanda Barbra Daly, Rocky Higine non-COVID times — walk Figueroa-Nieves, Andrew Assoc. Comics Editor dents can discuss mental Zhang Destiny Alexander into the counseling center health needs and possible Beat Reporters Sr. Comics Illustrators Skye Seipp, Samantha Cynthia Trevino, Sylvia and get their needs met Greyson, Tori Duff, Kevin treatment options with Asuncion-Crabb Vu, Sheryl Lawrence, Lauren right away.” Abel, Lauren Goodman, Social Media Editor a counselor. Prior to Feb Laurie Grobe Katya Bandouil 10., students could only Psychology junior Nimisha Life&Arts Editor Assoc. Social Media Editor Jain said she thinks online Aisling Ayers Nuzha Zuberi schedule brief assessments Assoc. Life&Arts Editor Senior Digital Staffers scheduling reduces the anxi- Benjamin Cohen, Chloe Young over the phone. Students Lauren Castro ety some students experience Life&Arts Desk Editors Audio Editor can now make an appoint- Aurora Berry EMMA GEORGE / THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF Grace Barnes, Jennifer Errico when scheduling a brief as- Sr. Life&Arts Reporters Assoc. Audio Editor ment through their MyC- Fiza Kuzhiyil, Morgan-Taylor Addie Costello sessment appointment over Thomas Senior Audio Producers MHC web portal on the Carly Rose, Jackie Ibarra the phone. Sports Editor CMHC website. Carter Yates Editorial Adviser “I think the assessment Assoc. Sports Editors Peter Chen Marla Craig, senior as- Stephen Wagner, Nathan Han sociate director for clin- policy is really effective and ical services at CMHC, I think it can really help said CMHC has discussed people who might be too the introduction of online nervous to call in because ISSUE STAFF scheduling for brief as- they’re feeling anxious,” Jain said. “I know a lot of Comic Artists L&A Reporters sessment appointments Emily Reed, Alex Donovan, Ikram Mohamed, Hanaa Irfan, the times I’ve had to use Chloe Pertuit, Emma George, Zoe Tzanis for years. She said one Megan Clarke, Azul Elizondo News Reporters of the main motivations (phone scheduling) with my Copy Editors Kiernan McCormick Valeria Sixtos, Adriana Van friends and make the call Photographers behind implementing Tho, Katie Stam, Casey Ellis Andrew Zamora for them.” Designers online scheduling was Sports Reporters Minka Atkinson, Isabella Waltz Riley Glenn students’ requests. Redd said CMHC recogniz- Opinion Illustrators Emily MacCormack “Sometimes we can es the pandemic has height- implement ideas right ened mental health struggles away,” Craig said. “Oth- for many students, due to er times, it takes longer financial concerns, school, because it impacts oth- housing and socialization. Craig said CMHC aims AUSTIN WEATHER er services or it impacts delivery. … We’ve been to use online scheduling to support students regardless TODAY TOMORROW trying to figure out how March 2 March 3 we would do that, be- of their circumstances. “I cause technologically it’s just want us to be there as just been a lot more chal- a support for our students lenging for us to figure and to be as accessible as HI 64º HI 70º out how to do that.” possible,” Craig said. “And LO 37º LO 43º Katy Redd, associate to be able to use whatever technological means we can mood: piles of color palette director for prevention, screenshots on the desktop development and media to make sure that we are relations at CMHC, said available to them.” 3 LAUREN GIRGIS CONTACT US News Editor | @THEDAILYTEXAN TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 MAIN TELEPHONE 3 (512) 471-4591 NEWS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF COVID-19 Emily Caldwell (512) 232-2212 [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Trinady Joslin (512) 232-2217 [email protected] COVID-19 vaccine confusion NEWS OFFICE (512) 232-2207 the statement said. UT Health Austin is emergency. The form typically has had mentioned that they had vaccines [email protected] Unofficial COVID-19 vac- only vaccinating individuals in Phase 1A individualized links for specific patients, they needed to get rid of,” Nguyen said. cine sign-up link caused and Phase 1B who have completed the but it was suspended to allow for quick- After some of her colleagues received Vaccination Request Form. er registration, though it has since been cancellation emails for their appointments, thousands to make “All appointments scheduled in this reinstated, they said. Nguyen decided not to show up. manner are in the process of being Julie Nguyen, an administrative as- Cedar Creek resident Savannah Be- invalid appointments. canceled,” the statement said. “How- sociate for the educational psychology auregard said she waited in line for ever, some individuals have showed up department, said she received the link 90 minutes after signing up with the By Lauren Abel & Kevin Vu on-site today, resulting in longer than to register for a vaccine from a colleague link. She said she left when a volunteer @laurena0324, @Kevin_Vu_ normal lines.” who said extra vaccinations were avail- told those in line that their appoint- Susan Hochman, associate director able. Nguyen, who does not qualify for ments would be canceled if they did not for assessment, communications and Phase 1A or 1B, said she was not given complete a survey when signing up. undreds lined up health information technology for Uni- any screening questions when she made “From what I understand, they said outside Gregory Gym versity Health Services said in an email the appointment. that thousands more people showed up on Monday after thou- that the link was shared by individuals “When I had signed up originally I than they even expected, because they sands of individuals who received it through the UT online thought it was a free for all and that you were still going through the beginning of who do not qualify for scheduling system. didn’t necessarily have to be in either the 9 a.m. appointments when they told the COVID-19 vaccine “The link was intended only for the phase because, like I said, (my colleague) us at 11 (a.m.),” Beauregard said. made an appointment after a scheduling use of individuals who had completed link was unofficially spread. an online eligibility survey and who UT Health Austin was notified of an ac- tive vaccine scheduling link that was being fit the 1A and 1B vaccination priori- shared through unofficial networks across tization criteria as designated by the the UT community, the University said Texas Department of State Health in a statement Monday. This form result- Services,” Hochman said. ed in thousands of individuals signing up According to a UT Health Austin for appointments who did not follow the statement, the issue with the link was UT Health Austin registration process, the result of the extended weather What will your next degree be? Where do you want to earn it? What job title do you want? Exploring your next steps beyond graduation can be overwhelming. If you’re trying to narrow down your Graduate School options, we can help. Learn more about graduate degree programs at schools around the country, and connect with their recruiters by requesting more information through an online interest form. ANDREW ZAMORA / THE DAILY TEXAN STAFF www.graduatesoftexas.com People wait in line outside of Gregory Gym for the COVID-19 vaccine Monday.